Ackerman Elliot: Dark At The Crossing

From the author of the acclaimed Green on Blue, a timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.
Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who once translated for the American troops in exchange for US citizenship, Haris now yearns to return to Turkey and cross into Syria to join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by two Syrian refugees in Gaziantep - Amir, a former Syrian revolutionary, and his wife, Daphne, beautiful and sophisticated but haunted by grief. After learning that their young daughter was left behind in Syria and that Daphne is also desperate to return to find her, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist?
Told with compassion and a deft hand, Dark at the Crossing is an exploration of loss, of second chances, and of why we choose to believe - a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency and power.